Dmitry Peskov

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Dear President Putin: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an international press freedom advocacy group, is gravely concerned about recent steps to restrict Russia's independent media. The measures taken over the past three months threaten to eradicate Russian news outlets' freedom to freely report and analyze news events.

Late
last month, as thousands of international journalists prepared to descend on
Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics, the Kremlin resorted to using a controversy
to silence a critical television station. A direct move to shut down the
station would have been too blunt--particularly at a time when all eyes were on
Russia--so authorities resorted to exploiting a producer's blunder, blowing it
out of proportion, and pushing a third party to do their bidding. This is what
happened.